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Is homunculus a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word homunculus is a Scrabble US word. The word homunculus is worth 17 points in Scrabble:

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Is homunculus a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word homunculus is a Scrabble UK word and has 17 points:

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Yes. The word homunculus is a Words With Friends word. The word homunculus is worth 23 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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10-letter words (1 found)

HOMUNCULUS,

8-letter words (1 found)

CUMULOUS,

7-letter words (4 found)

COLUMNS,CUMULUS,LUCUMOS,OSCULUM,

6-letter words (13 found)

CLONUS,COLUMN,CONSUL,HOUMUS,HUMOUS,LOCUMS,LUCUMO,MUCOUS,OCULUS,SCHULN,SLOUCH,SMOUCH,UNSOUL,

5-letter words (33 found)

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4-letter words (60 found)

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3-letter words (46 found)

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2-letter words (19 found)

CH,HM,HO,LO,MO,MU,NO,NU,OH,OM,ON,OS,OU,SH,SO,UH,UM,UN,US,

You can make 177 words from homunculus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of homunculus

homunculus

Alternative forms

  • homonculus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin homunculus, diminutive of homō (“man”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /hɒˈmʌŋk.jʊ.ləs/
  • (US) IPA(key): /həˈmʌŋk.jə.ləs/, /hoʊˈmʌŋk.jə.ləs/

Noun

homunculus (plural homunculi)

  1. A miniature man, once imagined by spermists to be present in human sperm.
  2. The nerve map of the human body that exists on the parietal lobe of the human brain.

Quotations

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:homunculus.

Derived terms

  • cortical homunculus
  • homunculus argument

Related terms

  • homo
  • homunculine

Translations

See also

  • manikin

References

  • “homunculus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “homunculus”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “homunculus”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Italian

Alternative forms

  • omuncolo

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin homunculus (“little man”). Compare the adapted borrowing omuncolo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /oˈmun.ku.lus/
  • Rhymes: -unkulus
  • Hyphenation: ho‧mùn‧cu‧lus

Noun

homunculus m (invariable)

  2. (alchemy, folklore) homunculus (a legendary figure resembling a little man, who was said to be created through alchemy)
  4. (historical, biology) homunculus (the little man believed by preformationists to be inside human sperm)
  6. (physiology, neuroscience) homunculus (nerve map realized as a distorted representation of the human body)
    homunculus corticale ― cortical homunculus
    homunculus motorio ― motor homunculus

Further reading

  • (sense 1 and 2): homunculus (alchimia) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
  • (sense 3): homunculus corticale on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
  • omuncolo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • homunculus in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Latin

Etymology

From homō, hominis +‎ -culus.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /hoˈmun.ku.lus/, [hɔˈmʊŋkʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /oˈmun.ku.lus/, [oˈmuŋkulus]

Noun

homunculus m (genitive homunculī); second declension

  1. Diminutive of homō (“man”).
  2. a little or weak man, homunculus
  3. (rare) a dwarf
    Synonyms: nānus, pūmiliō

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

  • → Catalan: homuncle
  • → English: homunculus
  • → Spanish: homúnculo
  • → French: homuncule
  • → German: Homunkulus
  • → Italian: homunculus
  • → Japanese: ホムンクルス
  • → Portuguese: homúnculo
  • → Romanian: homunculus
  • → Russian: гому́нкул (gomúnkul)

References

  • “homunculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “homunculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • homunculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin homunculus.

Noun

homunculus m (plural homunculuși)

  1. homunculus

Declension


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